The temperature and CO2 levels have been changing for millennia on planet
Earth (up and down) and to think that our LBC's are in any way impacting
this fact is absurd. We have no control over sun spots and the activity
which controls our cloud cover and CO2 retention. When all is said and
done we will be gone and our planet (and Healey's) will have survived.
Enjoy your cars and leave the rest to Mother Nature (who you don't want
to fool with!!) IMHO.
Doug
> The numbers I posted were idle readings. You idle HC is a little
> higher,
> your idle CO is a bit lower, and you CO2 is right were I guessed it
> would
> be. Overall not a bad guess I would say.
> It is possible that with a little bit fatter idle the CO would go up
> and the
> HC would go down, but it is hard to say without being right there
> playing
> with the engine.
>
> Rick
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Leonard Hartnett
> <thehartnetts@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Richard: For your comparison purposes, the last SMOG test
> required on my
> > BJ8
> > in July, 1997, produced the following readings:
> >
> > 2500 RPM
> > MAX ALLOWABLE HC PPM: 600
> > MEASURED: 112
> > MAX ALLOWABLE C0 %: 4.5
> > MEASURED: 4.07
> > CO2: 11.3
> >
> > IDLE RPM
> > MAX ALLOWABLE HC PPM: 700
> > MEASURED: 671
> > MAX ALLOWABLE CO %: 5.5
> > MEASURED: 5.03
> > CO2: 8.2
> >
> > (The Other) Len
> > Vacaville, California, USA
> > 1967 3000 MKIII, HBJ8L39031
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Richard Ewald
> > To: Alan Seigrist
> > Cc: Leonard Hartnett ; Healey Mail List
> > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 8:48 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Healeys] SMOG TESTS SB 1549 Senate Bill
> >
> >
> > See right here is the crux of the problem. A very dirty car (A
> big
> > Healey
> > for example) puts out a very high amount of carbon monoxide, and
> unburnt
> > hydrocarbons. I've never had a 3000 on a smog machine, but I have
> had
> > plenty
> > of MGs and Sprites. They love to run about 7-8% CO when set up
> right, and
> > the
> > HC at maybe 300-500 PPM.
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